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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA
* Arizona - Ground-shipping business picking up. Transportation Data Suggests economy moving forward
Phoenix,AZ,USA -AZ Central/The Arizona Republic, by Betty Beard -12 Sept 2010: ... In 2010, the freight-transportation industry appears to be doing much better, at least compared with the extra-low level numbers of 2009. However, just as other economic indicators show, there are a few worrisome signs that the improvement has leveled off as 2010 has progressed... Diesel-fuel sales, trucking-company earnings, train volumes, truck-driver hiring and other transportation indexes have been all up this year. Cargo flown in and out of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport rose 11 percent in June compared with the same period a year earlier, when it fell 16 percent lower than 2008... (Photo by Charlie Leight/The Arizona Republic - Aug. 26, 2010: Vern Greene, of Buckeye, disconnects the hoses as he prepares to drop off a container at Duncan and Son, Inc. container-truck storage yard in Laveen)* Georgia - Following two down years, ground-shipping business picking up
Carnesville,GA,USA -On Line Athens, by Chris Starrs -September 12, 2010: -- This time last year, Todd Davis was among many in the trucking business feeling the pinch of tough economic times. Unlike a number of companies, however, Carnesville-based Davis Transfer was able to survive a grueling 2009 and is poised for growth this year... "The freight recession really started back in the 2007-08 time frame," Davis said. "We went into the recession early when the economy was still experiencing some growth. We're a first-in, first-out industry, but if we go back a year, we were still very conservative with any growth, and we were just making sure our banking relationships were in place. There were a lot of firms that went out of business and a lot of capacity was lost during the recession/depression" ... Mack Guest, president of Watkinsville-based LAD Truck Lines, agreed with Davis that the challenges of 2009 were plentiful... As far as the future is concerned, Davis and Guest agreed the economy would work itself to a more even keel, although Guest thinks better times will come starting in November with Election Day... (Photo: Top from right, Ricky Jordan, Travis Williams, Victor Del Rio and Chris Page take a break recently in the garage bay at Davis Transfer Co. in Carnesville) * Tennessee - Covenant Transport Teams Up with Roadside Medical
Chattanooga,TENN,USA -TruckingInfo -13 Sept 2010: -- Roadside Medical Clinic + Lab is partnering with Covenant Transport to roll out the Roadside Medical Driver Wellness program, giving drivers and corporate employees access to a trucking wellness program. Starting in 2011, drivers in the medical plan will automatically be enrolled and drivers not in the medical plan can elect to participate... Participants in the program receive health checks every 30 days at Roadside Medical Clinic + Lab locations across the country, which include monitoring of blood pressure, weight, sugar, BMI and other key measures, as well as counseling on health, lifestyle, exercise and nutrition. Each Roadside Medical location also provides basic medical services, DOT physicals, drug testing and sleep services... (Photo from herbalbelief: For a trucker wellness)
* DC - Teamsters Seeks Major Restructuring at YRC - Union won’t endorse new concessions without ‘comprehensive’ overhaul of trucker
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online -Sep 11, 2010: -- The Teamsters union is telling workers at YRC Worldwide that it will only support concessions sought by the financially troubled trucking company if they come with a “comprehensive restructuring” of the business... The union told members in a letter Friday that YRC, the country’s largest less-than-truckload operator, recently asked for a new round of cost savings in the company’s ongoing “struggle to stabilize its business” ... Tyson Johnson, chairman of the Teamsters National Freight Industry Negotiating Committee, said the union leadership group is negotiating a “sustainable YRC solution” to submit for ratification by drivers... Any concessions would follow givebacks the unionized drivers agreed to over the past year as they took wage cuts of up to 15 percent and a suspension of pension contributions, including $155 million in deferred payments and $300 million in permanent savings, to help YRC stave off bankruptcy protection...* Georgia - Brown Trucking Acquires Tennessee Carrier
Lithonia,GA,USA -Transport Topics -13 Sept 2010: -- James Brown Contracting said Monday it has acquired Schrader Trucking Co., a Jefferson City, Tenn.-based dry van truckload carrier... Brown, which does business as Brown Trucking, is a dedicated short-haul truckload carrier based in Lithonia, Ga., near Atlanta. It was started in West Virginia in the 1960s and has about 600 trucks and more than 3,000 trailers... Schrader, which also has logistics operations, has 95 trucks and 201 trailers. It operates across the Southeast and in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Texas and Canada, and its primary commodities are plastics, vinyl films, retail, building materials and industrial machinery parts...
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